Technology opinions and digital photography

  • Music without limits

    The recent news lead me to talk again about digital music and its cohabitation (or lack of) with network technology. As a matter of fact, we learn this week that our new French President is in favor of a strong action against pirated music and downloads. This is not very new, indeed, but the confirmation…

  • Crop circles and more

    Crop circles and more

    You already knew about the unreadable writings done (by and for extra-terrestrial beings) under the form of ground engravings in South America or crop circles in Europe and North America, but human marketing people will not let themselves outdone by little grey (or green) men for large scale communication:

  • Mauritania: The train of all records

    Mauritanie has not the most developed train system. However, there is at least one train line exploited to transport iron ore that has the honor of seeing the world’s longest train. Here it is in its full video splendor. Be patient if you want to see it all.

  • Internet Archive of spiders

    The Internet Archive contains hundreds or thousands of movies. Today, they show a list of movies specifically about spiders. Weird, isn’t it?

  • Borneo rhino on video

    Borneo rhinoceros is certainly an endangered species with only a few dozen individuals alive. The first photo of one was shot only last year, but the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) project has published the first video staging a Borneo rhino. Source: The Guardian.

  • 2007 images of the Denis-Huot

    2007 images of the Denis-Huot

    Back from safari, I went and checked the web site of Michel & Christine Denis-Huot. Some new images from 2007. Most have been there already for some time. But this is regularly updated. Copyright 2007 M&C Denis-Huot

  • WordPress: How to survive being slashdotted or digged?

    Being propulsed to the home page of a famous web site like SlashDot or Digg is intensely satisfying for the author of a blog, but it usually results in an intense traffic storm for your server that may not survive to the typhoon even if it comes from friends. DownloadSquad grouped some ideas on how…

  • Biomechanical sculptures

    Biomechanical sculptures

    Pierre Matter is a sculptor whose production should attract the eye of most of the visitors. You can find more at: Galerie Opera, The art of Pierre Matter on Knutz.net.

  • Wallhogs: Big prints for your walls

    Essentially, Wallhogs is accepting your picture files to prepare special prints of large size: Decals, that would be nice to stick on a wall or on your fridge Posters (you know that don’t you?) Canvas prints, that would mimic a canvas paint


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